Senior Network Engineer - Up to £300k (London Area)

2 x Senior Network Engineer - Citrix/Python - Up to £300k Total Comp

One of the world's leading quantitative trading firms are searching for 2 x highly skilled and experienced Network Engineers to join their team (1x perm, 1 x contract). Below I have included a breakdown of the role, company, and requirements.

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Role:

• Responsible for handling network installation, configuration, and maintenance across their office, data-centre, and colocation sites.
• A focus on Cisco and Arista equipment, particularly routers and switches.
• Role will focus on project work, but will sit as a Point of Escalation for the Network Operations team
• Large volume of work to come from an on-going initiative to improve go to market speed closer to ultra-high frequency. As a result my client is heavily investing in compute power, colocation, and cloud.
• Design and implement green-field networking solutions
• Opportunity to research and evaluate new network technologies applications
• Network automation heavy environment
• Infra environment: Hybrid - mixture of Windows and Linux (mainly Linux) | AWS and Openshift Cloud

Company:

• Market leading firm utilising a combination of state of the art ML/AI, industry leading tech, and data science driven approach to drive their quant trading strategy
• Hire the best of the best - will be surrounded by very knowledgeable people you will have the opportunity to learn from
• Agile teams and flat structure with cross-functional collaboration
• Brand new offices
• Highly competitive packages, with guaranteed total comp in year 1
• Benefits: 35 days AL, Free daily lunch, 9% Pension, Private Health/Dental, Childcare + more

Requirements:

• Strong core network engineering experience
• Strong automation experience - likes of Python, Golang, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, GIT, Kubernetes
• Cisco Certification - CCNP/CCIE Level
• Strong Linux
• Experience architecting network solutions for production purposes
• Global WAN build experience i.e. BGP Segment routing in SD-WAN deployments
• Broad infra knowledge - as a result exposure within a small or medium size firm more suited
• Good level of data-centre experience
• Timing solution experience - GPS, PTP, NTP, PPS
• Packet analysis experience - Wireshark
• Packet capture experience - Optical taps, SPAN, tap aggregation, timestamping
• No issue waiting for non-competes
• Bonus: Investment sector experience, low latency networking